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In reply to the discussion: Has Anyone Seen this - Is it a Credible Site? [View all]orwell
(7,771 posts)34. That's just not true...
...they would never roll out an untested vaccine. You could actually give healthy individuals the very disease you are vaccinating them for.
Vaccines are not like "experimental" drugs or medical procedures. If someone has a very high likelihood of dying you may take the risk with a novel new drug or technique on a very limited basis to save their life.
With a vaccine however you are giving it to a healthy person. You can't take the risk of causing more harm than good. Look what happened to the botched rollout of the Polio vaccine. It actually gave some kids Polio.
Vaccines are different animals.
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The article is exaggerating at LOT, the mRNA were able to be made days after the genetic sequence ..
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#18
no it's not. it actually shows how we've been able to get to a vaccine for distribution so quickly
unblock
Dec 2020
#21
If Covid had been more deadly, testing would have been bypassed & volume manufacturing started
Klaralven
Dec 2020
#19
If 100,000 a week are dying, you'd roll out whatever vaccine you could produce.
Klaralven
Dec 2020
#29